Building Self-Service Development Platforms
summary
Shows a working pipeline that provisions full dev environments from one command: Terraform + Terragrunt for VPC/EKS and state management, ArgoCD GitOps to deploy platform components and the app, Crossplane to create AWS resources (SQS, IAM role) from Kubernetes CRDs, and ExternalSecrets with IRSA/pod identity for short‑lived credentials. Demo builds a simple subscriber app (writes to SQS, reads back) and the automation runs end‑to‑end, supports spot nodes to cut cost, and publishes the repo and runnable manifests. Terraform + Terragrunt ArgoCD GitOps Crossplane for AWS resources IRSA / pod identity
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:02Dev environment problems
- 9:18Solution architecture
- 13:58GitOps and Argo CD
- 18:39Crossplane and permissions
- 20:48Surprise and invites
- 21:32Summary and extensions
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